Two more teachers in the Carrollton-Farmers Branch Independent School District have been arrested separately for unrelated incidents, bringing the district’s total number of teacher arrests this year to five.
Haley Krista Radabaugh, an art teacher at Barbara Bush Middle School, was arrested Friday by the Denton Police Department and charged with child grooming, a third-degree felony.
Radabaugh was booked into the Denton County Jail on May 15 and released May 17 on a $25,000 bond.
Online records show Radabaugh has worked for Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD since the 2022-23 school year.
Radabaugh has held a Texas teaching certificate since 2021.
On the same day as Radabaugh’s arrest, a staff member at R.L. Turner High School was taken into custody by the Carrollton Police Department.
According to a notice sent to Turner families Friday by Principal Ivan Cedillo, the arrest was for “an incident that occurred on campus” but “no students were involved.”
Cedillo did not name the employee, but local parents identified him as James Matthew “Matt” Stevens, a special education teacher and assistant tennis coach at the school.
Carrollton Police confirmed Monday that Stevens was arrested May 15 on a charge of public intoxication.
Online records show Stevens began working for Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD as a teacher’s aide in the 2019-20 school year, then as a teacher starting the following year. Stevens’ LinkedIn page confirms those dates.
Stevens was certified as an educational aide in 2019 and as a special education teacher in 2020.
The district has not responded to a request for more information about either arrest.
Three other Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD teachers have been arrested this year.
Creekview High School theater teacher Kolby Campbell was arrested March 28 on a charge of child grooming.
Turner High School engineering teacher and assistant coach Jerel Singh was arrested March 27 and charged with invasive visual recording. According to the district, Frisco Police are investigating, but the department has not responded to a request for more information.
Perry Middle School ESL teacher Miguel Caban Mendez was arrested March 4 and charged with two counts of indecency with a child by sexual contact, two counts of improper relationship between educator and student, and one count of indecent assault.
In the past few years, hundreds of Texas school employees have been accused of sex crimes involving students and other children. Thousands have been reported to the Texas Education Agency for misconduct since the state began keeping organized records.
The TEA’s new Educator Misconduct Reporting Dashboard shows that the agency has received more than 13,000 complaints and 17,000 criminal history alerts in the last eight months.
